China won’t ‘bully’ neighbors over South China Sea, foreign minister says


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MANILA — China will not use its strength to “bully” its smaller neighbors including the Philippines , its foreign minister said on Monday, as he highlighted the importance of settling disputes in the South China Sea peacefully. “Stressing only one side’s claims and imposing one’s own will on the other is not a proper way for neighbors to treat each other and it goes against the oriental philosophy of how people should get along with each other,” Wang Yi, the Chinese government’s top diplomat, told a virtual forum organized by China’s embassy in Manila and a local advocacy group. His...